Definition of "kilotons" []

• Plural form of kiloton. (noun)

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• "We needed at least five hundred kilotons, which is beyond what a simple uranium bomb can generate."
• "And it has a yield of twelve hundred kilotons, which is more than enough for our purposes."
• "The atomic bombs dropped on Japan were primitive by modern standards: Each weighed more than four tons and produced yields (explosive output) between fifteen and twenty kilotons, that is, an amount of energy equal to the detonation of fifteen thousand to twenty thousand tons of TNT."